Words to Live By.

 

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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

-Benjamin Franklin

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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

-George Washington

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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

-Thomas Paine

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

-Abraham Lincoln

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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

-Barack Obama

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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. 

-Leo Aikman

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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.  '

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

-Theodore Roosevelt

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Don't be afraid to see what you see.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

-Ronald Reagan

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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

-John Adams

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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

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